I wrote a few OpenLaszlo applets over the holidays. I'm calling them "applets" because they aren't full-fledged transactional applications; nevertheless, I thought they might be interesting to a few developers.

First, the Aargh! page answers the question, how do you spell "aargh"? It uses statistics from Google, and both an HTML table and an OpenLaszlo application to visualize the result. (Click on the "visualize" button at the top of the table, to switch between them.)

Then, Ben's roundrectbutton got me excited about using OpenLaszlo for lighter-weight interfaces, so I added a button bar to the top of my home page.

And finally, Jon Udell posted about visualizing del.icio.us tags over time. He uses an Excel spreadsheet to implement the visualization, but I wanted something more interactive. Hence: expialidocio.us.

One of the things I like about OpenLaszlo is that it makes it easy to write small applets like this quickly -- because they just aren't a lot of code.

Bryan Reiger, the creator of the beautiful A Wee Guide to Tropical Fish, has gone fishing again.

A Tale of Two Fish is a short story about copyright and fair use. Read about it here; view it here.

Glancer is an OpenLaszlo application that matches conference attendees with each other, based on the topics and technologies that they've indicated they're interested in. It's currently in public alpha. The project blog is here.

"Gliffy is a suite of online applications designed to replace expensive and difficult to maintain desktop software. Since Gliffy applications work in any web browser, sharing your work is made simple."

The first Gliffy application is an online diagram creation and sharing tool. It's in closed beta, but you can see a glimpse of it here.

From Scott:

http://bryanrieger.com/2005/11/10/fish-and-widgets/

here's the app:
http://yiibu.com/wp-content/widgets/andaman/laszlo/index.html

I really do think LZX is cool to create lightweight, dynamic apps like
this.

And I think it's cool that the source for this is only 100 lines, too.

Laszlo Systems, the sponsor of the OpenLaszlo project, launched a hosted preview of the Laszlo Mail application today. We encourage you to try it out at http://www.laszlomail.com, to tell your friends, and to send the developers your feedback.

This is an excellent example of the kind of application that can be built using the OpenLaszlo platform.  We congratulate the Laszlo Mail team on this exciting new application.  As Jonathan Boutelle says : " It feels like a candy-coated swiss army knife, an appealing mix of aesthetics and pragmatic design."

You can read about some of the best practices and performance optimizations that the Laszlo Mail team (and others!) have contributed, on the OpenLaszlo wiki.

From the product page:

Laszlo Mail puts a high-polish interface on Web mail with features and performance that outshine others - consistently in any browser. The design center of Laszlo Mail focuses on high quality of user experience where the application uses dynamic layout and animation changes to help users to stay oriented within application interfaces and efficiently complete email tasks.

The OpenLaszlo project's very own Max Carlson, together with Ben Cerveny, have created the awesome State Machine, a tool for visualizing the influence of money on politics.

Spket IDE is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Laszlo built on top of Eclipse RCP(Rich Client Platform).

It is small and easy to install, with syntax highlighting, code
completion for XML and JavaScript.

Screenshots: http://www.spket.com/screenshots.html
Download: http://www.spket.com/download.html